Posted on 04/01/2019 5:12:26 AM PDT by w1n1
Honestly.....you could get a Mosin-Nagant for cheap that would be quite effective against any game in North America.
I picked up a pair for around $100 each just for funsies. Tossed in a couple spam cans of ball ammo that were probably dug up from a Bulgarian potato field sometime in the 80s. The whole shebang cost me around $250 IIRC.
Not worth a custom scope mount but theyre a hoot to shoot. Both are hex receivers made at the Tulsa Armory in the 1930s. They could have marched into Berlin for all I know.
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I have a Savage Axis .308 and am not happy with the scope set-up. I have to stretch my head forward to get my eye close enough to the scope to sight. The scope is set as far back as possible. I’ve see “rail” attachments that would allow bringing the scope back farther, but then I have half the scope floating over the stock. I think what I’d like is to find and affordable “competition” stock/forearm with multiple adjustments that I could mount the Axis hardware on to. Any suggestions?
You seem knowledgeable. Please take a look at my post #22. Thx.
Thats nothing; I can cover a six shot group with a nickel! When I get to the target I put a nickel over each shot.
For the price of a new custom stock, you can step into a new rifle.
Other than that have you tried turning the rear portion of your scope outward? This increases the length of the scope and reduces the eye relief distance. Cutting down the stock to a shorter length might be an option also. Check with a local gunsmith as this could be your most affordable option.
I priced new stocks before buying a new rifle. I was thinking I could upgrade my back up rifle with a new stock ... better bedding free floating barrel etc. But at $300 plus for just a stock I couldn’t justify it.
Have someone more knowledgeable than you remount your scope and see how that works. Not a ding on your knowledge, I’ve been shooting and re-loading for decades but my neighbor mounted my new scope and helped with load development ... he knows what he is doing and gets paid for it. I would never have the accuracy I have now without his help.
Good luck!
I have two Howa 1500s. One in .223 and one in .308. They are both tack drivers, and both were under $350 each.
bkmk
Fifty three years ago I watched a young fellow with thick lens glasses shoot a three shot group at one hundred yards and then walk over and cover it with one coin, a dime! He was using a .222, NOT a .223. All three rounds made a hole no bigger than a .35 would make. He was using his own handloads.
I bought a new Remington model 700 in six millimeter Remington and could never come close to that group. My best at one hundred yards was probably the size of a half dollar.
My best at one hundred yards was probably the size of a half dollar.
For 95% of the real world applications thats good enough.
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Im in my mid 50s and this was 3 years ago. 5 shots at 150 yards with a cheap scope and 49.5 grn of IMR 4895 and a 150 grn Swift Scirroco. (Attention getter for sure)
I'm keeping this one. It just needed a little lovin.
Good gun for shooting really small deer.
It was always a decent shooter. The day of my eldest daughters wedding a water pipe burst in my basement and soaked it for a day or so. The kids got me a new, obviously better stock and I made it look even scarier with a $89 scope. Now its all plastic and steel and can withstand long periods of total submersion in the local lake and still come out shooting straight.
The Swift bullets hit hard. The Scirocco is made for longer ranges but thats about as good as I can see. The Swift A-Frame (partition bullet) is like a freight train.
Ruger Americans are also available in 6.5 Creedmoor.
True, but the milsurp prices have gone up enough that it's just not as attractive an option now. Overseas armories are finally running dry - Classic Firearms just uncrated a shipment of Chinese SKS rifles (by way of Albania, so the Clinton ban on Chinese firearms imports didn't apply). The price posted is over $400 each.
Light up North America.
Varget usually works great in a .308.
you need an offset scope ring
IIRC, Tikka is sort of Sako's "bargain" line (not really part of the sub-$500 discussion, but everything is relative). Have you seen the T3X Arctic model, based on the Canadian Arctic Rangers' new rifle? If that one ever becomes available in the U.S., I'll probably put a dent in my credit card.
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